[*] Living and Learning: A Profile of Young People, Employment, Education and Training in Northern Adelaide
Sunday, 1 September 2002
This report provides a regional profile of the education, training and employment experiences of young people in Northern Adelaide. [View]

Effectively involving an Australian rural community in a risk management process: a "community partnerships" approach
Sunday, 25 August 2002
This paper is a report on a multi-faceted means to ensure successful creation and adoption by a rural community of a Public and Environmental Health Management Plan. It offers lessons for Emergency Managers wishing to promote behavioural change and enhance emergency risk management processes. [View]

[*] Learning and Training in School-Based New Apprenticeships
Thursday, 1 August 2002
This project set out to examine learning and training in school-based apprenticeships and [View]

[*] School Student's Views on their Working and Learning in the Workplace
Thursday, 1 August 2002
This report discusses the qualitative comments which students made about their workplace [View]

[*] Schooling the Rustbelt Kids
Thursday, 1 August 2002
Thomson argues that current outcomes-based and standardised policies for disadvantaged schools are not effective. Rather schools need the flexibility to develop strategies that suit their specific situation. [View]

[*] The State We Are In - State Strategic Plans Seminar
Friday, 2 June 2006, 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm
The State Government has developed a range of strategic plans that it uses to assess new initiatives and co-investment opportunities. For researchers who want to seek funding or partnership from state government for new research ideas, it is important that they are fully aware of these plans, and can identify how their research will help deliver against the state's strategic objectives. [View]

[*] South Australia's Population and the Future
Wednesday, 24 May 2006, 6:00 pm
The University of Adelaide has invited four eminent Australian scholars to address the issue of Australia's future population from their own perspectives. [View]

Blair, New Labour, and Education Policy: Sustainable for Social Justice in Public Schooling
Wednesday, 14 June 2006, 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm
The Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies invites you to a seminar on Blair, New Labour, and Education Policy: Sustainable for Social Justice in Public Schooling, Dave Hill, Professor of Education Policy at the University of Northampton, UK. In this paper Prof Hill will describe and analyse New Labour's education policies, 1997-2005, comparing them with the Conservative education policies of 1979 -1997, and analyse New Labour's policies in social democratic, neo-conservative, neo-liberal themes. [View]

[*] Children and Conflict: New Research Findings from the Conflict Management Research Group.
Thursday, 25 May 2006, 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm
The Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies presents Children and Conflict: New Research Findings from the Conflict Management Research Group. Prof Dale Bagshaw, Director, Conflict Management Research Group, HRISS, will report on the findings of the Children and Families in Transition project. The overall aim of the project is to develop, pilot and evaluate a `best practice' model of child-centred interventions, based on research, that provides children and their families with early access to culturally relevant information and support as they transit through the separation and divorce process. Dr Barbara Spears, Conflict Management Research Group, HRISS, The weft and warp of girls' friendships and bullying: an explanatory model. This second session of the seminar will explore complexities of girls' dynamics in schools, with particular attention to the role that friendships play, the goals of their negative behaviours and girls' perceptions of bullying. [View]

2006 Microfinance and Community Development Finance Seminar - promoting a financially inclusive South Australian community
Tuesday, 30 May 2006, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
The term microfinance has come to be recognised as a catch all for all small financial interactions. It is important to recognise that there are some key identifying features of microfinance in its Australian applications, and they are: [View]